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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

Are you suffering from some kind of short term memory problem? I'm responding to a specific post. Try reading in context next time.

DP sounds like the interview was botched

DP. Do you realize you’re judging an interview of a 18 yr old to whom you have no connection and for no real reason? You should be mature by now to know that there is no definitive formula for college admissions. Just try focusing on gaining bits and pieces of information from others’ experiences to help your DC as much as possible and contributing with the new information when possible instead.

Get over yourself.

If an interview goes well, and everything else is lined up, you get an offer. If an interview goes badly, despite lining everything else up well, you don't. Its a fact. Its also a fact for a LOT of applicants. Its not a judgment on the character or future promise of some anonymous kid.

Again, get. over. yourself.

isn’t what you’re saying obvious. How many times are you going to repeat the same things that everyone knows. And interviews are subjective, so no one can be sure how the interviewer perceived it.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

Are you suffering from some kind of short term memory problem? I'm responding to a specific post. Try reading in context next time.

DP sounds like the interview was botched

DP. Do you realize you’re judging an interview of a 18 yr old to whom you have no connection and for no real reason? You should be mature by now to know that there is no definitive formula for college admissions. Just try focusing on gaining bits and pieces of information from others’ experiences to help your DC as much as possible and contributing with the new information when possible instead.

Get over yourself.

If an interview goes well, and everything else is lined up, you get an offer. If an interview goes badly, despite lining everything else up well, you don't. Its a fact. Its also a fact for a LOT of applicants. Its not a judgment on the character or future promise of some anonymous kid.

Again, get. over. yourself.

isn’t what you’re saying obvious. How many times are you going to repeat the same things that everyone knows. And interviews are subjective, so no one can be sure how the interviewer perceived it.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

DP sounds like the interview was botched

DP. Do you realize you’re judging an interview of a 18 yr old to whom you have no connection and for no real reason? You should be mature by now to know that there is no definitive formula for college admissions. Just try focusing on gaining bits and pieces of information from others’ experiences to help your DC as much as possible and contributing with the new information when possible instead.

Get over yourself.

If an interview goes well, and everything else is lined up, you get an offer. If an interview goes badly, despite lining everything else up well, you don't. Its a fact. Its also a fact for a LOT of applicants. Its not a judgment on the character or future promise of some anonymous kid.

Again, get. over. yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

DP sounds like the interview was botched

DP. Do you realize you’re judging an interview of a 18 yr old to whom you have no connection and for no real reason? You should be mature by now to know that there is no definitive formula for college admissions. Just try focusing on gaining bits and pieces of information from others’ experiences to help your DC as much as possible and contributing with the new information when possible instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

DP sounds like the interview was botched

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s. I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine.

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it! But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target.